Operation Standard Costs Specialist

Sales Consulting activates on the HR market since 1998, having a national coverage in several areas of expertise: recruiting and selection assessment center HR market mapping/due diligence projects, personnel leasing, payroll.

Sales Consulting has 2 fully operational branches: Cluj-Napoca (also the head-office) and Bucharest.
We are developing various projects (Recruitment, Training and Consultancy) in some of the most varied type of industries:
- AUTOMOTIVE/PRODUCTION/ENGINEERING (Specialists and Middle & Top Management positions)
- OUTSOURCING (BPO/SSC/CC)
- IT & C (C++, C#, .NET, Java, Linux etc)
- FMCG (sales & purchasing positions; all levels)
- PHARMA (all levels)

To apply for this position you need to be a highly accurate, analytical, and effective
problem solver who can interact with specialized colleagues to design, develop, and
implement new options and opportunities. You should also be result-oriented, flexible,
and willing to go the extra mile.

If you also tick the following boxes we would love to hear from you:
- Bachelor's degree in business management, economics, or finance;
- Previous experience in transportation and logistics is an advantage;
- Strong communication & analytical skills;
- Independent and willing to continuously improve ways of working;
- A team player;
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills;
- The ability to write clear and convincing reports;
- Good written and spoken English language skills.

This is a challenging and wide-ranging role in which you work with financial and
operational data to understand the main reasons causing the variances between
actual and standard costs. You will need to support the Cost Owners in carrying out
the corrective actions to minimize the variances by focusing on the identified highimpact root causes. It involves all aspects of operations - land transport by road, rail and water, shipping, ports, and terminals as well as equipment – and represents an
exciting opportunity to improve Samskip operational excellence. Within this context,
your core tasks include
- Check, deep-dive, and follow up on the missing/erroneous standard costs
values in booking and quotation and coordinate corrections with relevant
stakeholders;
- Monitor and follow up on Standard Costing data quality a) in existing quotations,
and b) in costs and routing;
- Control and report deviations to automatic process. Trend quotations regarding
manual adjustments and have them included in an archive accessible to the
Operation Cost Controllers and Cost Center owners. Administrate the already
analyzed quotes to be excluded for a new month’s analysis done by the
Operation Cost Controllers;
- Track and Trace, and update the overview of all the Standard Costs changes
as the key input to the Standard Costing monthly Newsletter;
- Set up, maintain, and improve the overview of the Regions/Modalities (monthly)
variances evolution and trending report;
- Perform a centralized role in Standard Costing system development.

An International Opportunity in a company with headquarters in Rotterdam that
innovates the most advanced sustainable and multimodal transport solutions across
Europe. Being one of the largest transport companies in Europe and at one of the
world’s busiest and most important transport and shipping hubs, you will engage with
the cutting edge of 21st-century logistics.